Nothing Gets Lost, Nothing Is Wasted

Artist: Rocco Ruglio- Misurell

25.10 – 19.11.2019

Photos: courtesy of the artist

In his artistic practice, Rocco Ruglio-Misurell uses simple everyday materials and prefabricated elements from construction sites. These could be seen as waste, or useless remains, but in his hands, they become a specific kind of object trouvé. The artist recycles or merges them, transforming into installations, spatial compositions, objects and sculptures.
This way, traces, elements or cracks are the starting point for creating an exhibition narration. He finds those elements in his own closest surroundings: in his studio, gallery, apartment or on a street in his neighborhood.
He takes a similar approach in his work with the Jak zopomnieć exhibition space, to which he introduces a fragment of his Berlin studio.
The exhibition also presents new ceramic pieces made during his residency in Oxbow in Saugatuch (Michigan) this August. Their shapes recall useful objects, but they deliberately lack any function, losing any utility during the uncontrolled process of firing. Their surfaces are imprinted with pieces of scrap metal and a dismantled laundry basket, or shells found in the studio. Together these form different grid patterns.
The intentional imperfection of these shapes and fragmentation bring to mind an archeological site. Surprisingly they don’t recall the past and traces of non-existing cultures but instead create an archeology of our everyday life.